I read on NTL announce the warnings of these problems; but they are unfortunately still going on – a month down the line! Also, I can get to “corporate” sites of big companies and media organisations without problems.

Certainly at “peak” times (like the start of the UK corporate business day around 09:00 local time) I am having particular difficulty getting to partyvibe – and other party sites such as squatjuice, headfuk et al…

I quite often have to use the IP address to access partyvibe

and also checking the screen of my router, I notice that the DNS queries are being thrown out presumably downstream of NTL..

it may be a local NTL problem; but I’ve even noticed it at work sometimes…

I do remember reading some techie sites warning there was a disagreement between some big companies about how DNS should work; that one had taken unilateral action to route unresolved queries to a commercial search site they ran; and that this would “poison” the way DNS worked.

Can’t help wondering if this is potentially the cause; or worse still, some uber-corp has implemented a “pecking order” for DNS queries, prioritising the responses to “hosts who pay the most” 🙁

But before I start screaming “conspiracy”, perhaps there is a perfectly rational technical reason for why this is happening. Anyone got any ideas??